Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
NEW GENERATION
how he was getting on. He was a funny bloke, now dreaming
at the picture again. I’d met his friend a week back on a Bristol
coach campaign. There had been a word of knowledge
that we’d meet a young man who was going through a marriage
breakdown. We had. He was now paying us a visit and
had brought Jason down as a bonus.
Soon we were sharing and praying together. Jason, now
out of his coma, explained, in a Bristol tongue, how his head
had been ‘done right in’ by what he had seen of our community.
Apparently this was a favourable response. Jason reckoned
we were ‘well dodgy’. Not ‘dodgy’, meaning suspect,
but ‘well dodgy’, which meant radical, distinctive and dangerous
to the devil. I marvelled at the English language.
Moments later it was my turn to be gob-smacked as the
one-time glue sniffer, burglar and car thief went on to reveal
a depth of biblical knowledge and spiritual insight that shook
me. God, and no one else, had opened this young man’s eyes.
We discussed the kingdom of God and he bubbled on about
‘the holy bride’ from Isaiah and Revelation, elated to find
someone who understood. We made friends. I laid hands on
him; the Spirit of God came and he started to shake.
So began an episode which, repeated with many other people,
was prophetic of a new phase amongst us — the dawning
of a new generation, the passing of the torch.
1993 had been an inspiring year with record growth. Jesus
Live had been a definite hit and was scheduled for a six city
tour of the UK. Searchers were everywhere, with people queuing
up for baptism. My diary for 1994 began on an unusually
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